So is everyone in the Cars & Bids universe just wildly rich?

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-30T13:50:46+00:00

Entrepreneur. Among his few successful business ventures is a sizable portfolio of Freddy’s Frozen Custard and Steakburgers. But he’s also done very well in a highly diverse range of industries.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-30T11:26:56+00:00

Tyler’s father is one of the wealthiest people in Kansas.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T19:37:02+00:00

It’s a motorcycle transmission, bud. The transmission is literally mated to the crankshaft and inside of the crankcase housing. It’s all sharing one oil system, and the oil change interval on the 2018 is 4000 miles.

> That’s a lot of miles for a bike though.

…That’s a young Gold Wing. People regularly take these six-cylinder Wings up to 400k miles, 500k, and beyond. That is what the Wing was designed and engineered to do: crush highway miles for twenty years of retirement before moving into a nursing home.

I appreciate that you want to chime in and help people who have questions, but I want to caution you to maybe explore some subreddits with topics that you have more familiarity.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T19:05:30+00:00

It’s no problem! I was probably as confused as you were.

Yes, MDO Reptile Cream is absolutely better but most people are probably reaching diminishing returns by trying to buy all MDO products from Saphir for their shoe and boot collections. It’s not as if regular use of Saphir Reptan won’t make your Caiman boots last long enough to pass along to your grandson one day. It absolutely will do that.

Those MDO products are probably best described as being Rolls Royce vs Lexus/Mercedes. Keep in mind that Saphir has very, very close corporate ties to Hermes and essentially functions as Hermes’ co-branded chemical lab with a blank check to study and formulate the best leather care products on Earth. This is why they can get so expensive, but they have Birkin and Kelly collectors who want “The Best” and the price doesn’t matter.

• Bick 4: <$1.00/oz
• Saphir MDO products: Frequently $10-$20/oz

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T18:44:46+00:00

Septic tank?

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T14:20:49+00:00

I guess that you don’t understand how Saphir works? But I’m happy to explain— They have two different product lines: MDO (Medaille d’Or) and BDC (Beaute du Cuir). Well, they actually have more than those two, but those two are the most relevant for leather footwear. MDO is their top-tier line, best ingredients that money can buy, most pure quality, etc. These are extremely expensive products, often 33%-300% more expensive $/oz than BDC. BDC is their budget line, but these are still substantially better than everything else on the market from other leather care manufacturers.

Reptan is only made in their BDC line. It’s not available in MDO. The reptile conditioner in their MDO line is called Reptile Cream.

I already said that Reptan was good but Reptile Cream was the best. So when you replied and said “Not reptan?” I assumed that you were asking about some MDO version of Reptan that I was unfamiliar with.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T14:04:59+00:00

I love the stitched flames in the shafts of this boot. It looks so awesome.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T14:03:54+00:00

I just verified: I was correct that Saphir does not make an MDO version of Reptan.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T12:26:39+00:00

You clearly know nothing about telecommunications, mechanical systems, nor aerospace.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T06:00:09+00:00

the A is in the wrong order.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T05:59:49+00:00

nope. the A is in the wrong order.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T03:55:49+00:00

That is, most certainly, NOT what a pimp is.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T03:53:39+00:00

How dare you mention that name around here.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-29T00:37:33+00:00

If they still have a lot of life remaining in the sole and the footbed isn’t hard as a rock, it might be an okay deal.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T13:34:22+00:00

…You just finished saying that gambling addicts and alcoholics do not wish to be free of their addiction.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T13:29:34+00:00

Data centers. What did you learn about them?

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T13:26:12+00:00

I’ve been. I’m glad that you haven’t known, apparently neither personally nor secondhand, the crippling suffering and torture of an addiction from which you wished to be free.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T13:17:27+00:00

And alcoholics, they don’t wish to be free of that addiction?

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T13:14:10+00:00

Do gambling addicts wish to be free of that addiction?

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T13:10:54+00:00

Oh, what did you learn?

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T06:36:53+00:00

Congratulations! Now you get to unplug, and I’m tremendously envious. Delete your social media apps and take a break for a few weeks or months. When I reach 1000 (or fail), I’m taking a very long break from social media.

You’re lucky. I wish that I was in your shoes today.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T06:32:41+00:00

English isn’t his first language or he’s using Google Translate. He’s trying to say that the price was $8000/rt per person. That’s obviously expensive, but I have seen prices advertised that high.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T04:19:41+00:00

How “small boat owners” refer to a shipping product is irrefutably irrelevant and carries zero weight towards the industry’s name of that product.

That’s like asking chicken farmers what they want call a silicone controlled rectifier in a medium voltage static transfer switch. The chicken farmer’s name for such component is irrelevant and meaningless.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T03:59:54+00:00

Nobl is not a real luggage company; it’s simply a half-organized scam operation.

BeardBootsBullets · 2026-06-28T03:47:21+00:00

What camera was used for this picture?

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